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The Metropolis Book Club Membership All you need to do is fill out the order form at the bottom of the page, select your first order from our book list and then post the completed form back to us. Special offers for new members As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members’ book list, to the value of 100 yuan in total. Tick the box on your form to order a free watch. Join before the end of this month and you receive another free book carefully chosen by our staff. Order an audio-book from the many on offer, at half the recommended retail price. When you’ve joined As a member you get around 50% off the publisher’s price of every book you buy, and what’s more, they come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month to keep you up to date with the latest best-sellers we’ve added to our list. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year at our exclusive members’ website. Our website also has a book swap service where members can request or offer books for exchange. Being a member All you have to do is order four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take. In each of your monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a “Book of the Month” for you, which is offered at an extra-special price. If you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form and send it back to us. We always send the book if we do not receive this form. Once we receive your order, your books are delivered within one week. And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. If they aren’t what you expected just send them back! 1.How can you become a member of the Metropolis Book Club? A. By ordering a watch free of charge. B. By sending the advertisement to the club. C. By returning the completed order form D. By choosing books with special prices. 2.What information does the monthly magazine give members? A. The percentage saved on each book. B. The names of all the books sold by the club. C. The list of the newest books available to buy. D. The books that can be swapped by club members. 3.What can we infer from the last part of the passage? A. At least four books should be bought each year. B. Members need to buy the “Book of the Month”. C. The more books bought, the higher the member’s grade. D. Members can look at the books before they buy them.
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Time flies, but the tracks of time remain in books and museums. This is what made a recent tragedy in Brazil even more terrible. On Sept.2, a big fire ripped through the National Museum of Brazil. “ Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge were lost, ” Brazilian President Michel Temer wrote on Twitter after the fire. “It's a sad day for all Brazilians.” Most of the 20 million pieces of history are believed to have been destroyed. Only as little as 10 percent of the collection may have survived, Time reported. Among all the items, there were Egyptian mummies, the bones of uniquely Brazilian creatures such as the long－necked dinosaur Maxakalisaurus, and an 11,500－year－old skull called Luzia, which was considered one of South America's oldest human fossils. Besides these, Brazil's indigenous(本土的，土著的) knowledge also suffered. The museum housed world－famous collections of indigenous objects, as well as many audio recordings of local languages from all over Brazil. Some of these recordings, now lost, were of languages that are no longer spoken. “The tragedy this Sunday is a sort of national suicide, a crime against our past and future generations,” Bernard Mello Franco, one of Brazil's best－known columnists, wrote on the O Globo newspaper site. The cause of the fire is still unknown, as BBC News reported on Sept. 3. After the fire burned out, crowds protested outside the museum to show their anger at the loss of the irreplaceable items of historical value. According to Emilio Bruna, an ecologist at the University of Florida, museums are living, breathing stores of who we are and where we've come from, and the world around us. Just as underwater grass floats on the surface if it loses its roots, a nation is lost without its memories. The fire at the National Museum of Brazil teaches the world an important lesson: We should never neglect history. 1.What can be summarized as the main idea of the 3rd and 4th paragraphs? A. Long history of South America. B. Remains from the fire. C. Mysteries to be solved. D. History and knowledge burned up. 2.What opinion may be shared by Bernard Mello Franco and the protesters? A. The government is to blame for the tragedy. B. The museum should be rebuilt C. The loss can't be made up for. D. The criminal should be sentenced to death. 3.What does Emilio Bruna compare museums to? A. Living stores of our past. B. Underwater grass. C. The oldest fossils. D. National suicide. 4.What may be the best title of the passage? A. Death of a civilization B. Functions of museums C. Gone with the fire D. Brazilians' memories
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Are you a procrastinator（拖拉者）? It’s a common problem. And it can be harmful, as previous research has shown that people who procrastinate have higher levels of stress and lower well-being, reported the Association for Psychological Science in the US. But a new study has found a way to deal with this problem: Be more connected to your future self. Psychologists think that each person believes that they are really two people: “Present Me” and “Future Me”. “People act as if they prefer their current selves’ needs and desires to those of their future selves,” wrote psychologists Neil Lewis and Daphna Oyserman. Oyserman and Lewis decided to try to find a way to make “Present Me” imagine exactly how “Future Me” would feel the night before a big paper was due, though “Present Me” hadn’t started yet. They made “Present Me” think about a far-off event as a number of days away, not months or years. Thinking about events in this way meant that something like a friend’s wedding seemed 16.3 days sooner when considered in days rather than months and 11.4 months sooner when considered in months rather than years. The researchers also tried to find out whether people would take action sooner if they were told a certain event was happening in X days rather than years. For example, participants imagined they had a newborn child, and that the child would need to go to college in either 18 years or 6,570 days. The researchers found those in the “days” condition planned to start saving four times sooner than those in the “years” condition. So if you think of your life in days instead of years, you may get things done quicker. 1.What did Oyserman and Lewis intend to do through their study? A. To work on a solution to test if someone is a procrastinator. B. To find out whether human beings usually have two different characters. C. To discover procrastinators are more likely to have a lower sense of well-being. D. To prove it’s helpful to connect our current selves more with future selves. 2.The underlined part “this way” in Paragraph 4 refers to “_________”. A. setting up tough deadlines B. following schedules strictly C. counting in smaller units of time D. imagining how your future self will feel 3.What helps prevent people from procrastinating? A. Comparing their future selves with present selves. B. Considering their current selves’ needs and desires. C. Thinking about far-off events in days rather than years. D. Marking important events on a calendar as a reminder. 4.What does the passage mainly talk about? A. A way to get things done in time. B. The harmful effects of procrastination. C. The reason to overlook future needs and desires. D. The way to reduce stress and improve happiness.
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Cold weather during winter months may keep many people from leaving home and running in the open air. However, a new study shows that the drop in temperature is a good reason to run. In fact, researchers say, running in cold weather helps improve one’s performance. Many people say running in the winter can be difficult. Two reasons are the low temperatures and bitter winds. Yet many runners might find it easier than running in hot weather. That could be because lower temperatures reduce stress on the body. When you run in cold weather, your heart rate and the body’s dehydration (脱水) levels are lower than in warmer conditions. The body needs less water on a cold day than in warm weather. This information comes from sports scientists at St. Mary’s University in London. John Brewer is a professor of applied sport science at St. Mary’s. For this study, he and other researchers put a group of people into a room they called an “environmental chamber.” The researchers then recreated summer and winter weather conditions in the room. The test subjects were asked to run 10,000 meters under both conditions. Brewer says he and his team recorded biological measurements of the runners. “We’ve got a group of subjects into the environmental chamber, we’ve changed the conditions to replicate the summer or winter and we’ve got them to run a 10km under both of those conditions and taken various measurements on each runner while they’ve been completing their 10km.” Brewer says every movement runners make produces heat. He explains that one way in which we lose heat is by sweating. The body loses heat through droplets of sweat. He says the body also loses heat by transporting the blood to the surface of the skin. 1.What can we know about running in winter? A. It increases pressure of the body. B. It improves the function of body. C. It makes your heart rate higher. D. It needs more water than in summer. 2.What can we know about the research according to the text? A. Researchers interviewed the subjects B. Subjects were asked to run in winter and summer. C. Subjects built the “environmental chamber”. D. Biological measurements of the runners were recorded. 3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “replicate” in Paragraph 7? A. Combine. B. Remember. C. Copy. D. Decorate. 4.What’s the best title for the passage? A. Environmental Chamber B. The Way of Losing Heat C. Running in Cold Weather Improves Performance D. Biological Measurements of the Runners
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If you’re a gamer who’s constantly glued to your phone, it could be time to ask for medical help. On June 18, 2018, the World Health Organization（WHO）officially listed “gaming disorder” as a mental health condition. 1. “Video gaming is like a non-financial kind of gambling （赌博）from a psychological point of view,” Mark Griffiths, a professor from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, told the Associated Press（AP）. “Gamblers use money as a way of keeping score, while gamers use points.” 2.“People need to understand this doesn’t mean every child who spends hours in their room playing games is an addict, otherwise doctors are going to be flooded with requests for help,” Joan Harvey, a spokeswoman for the British Psychological Society, told AP. 3. For example, a 21-year-old Chinese woman surnamed Wu in Guangdong province went blind in one eye after playing the mobile game King of Glory for a whole day. “On days when I have no work, I usually get up at 6 am, eat breakfast and play until 4 pm,” she told the South China Morning Post. “Then I’ll eat something, have a nap（小睡）and play until 1 am.” Wu isn’t alone. According to a study published by China Youth Daily, about one in five young Chinese people play online video games for at least four to five hours per day. 4. In April, the Ministry of Education issued a notice asking Chinese schools and parents to prevent students from becoming addicted to the Internet and games. Other countries have also taken action. 5. Meanwhile, in Japan, some mobile phones have a special mode for children that lets their parents control what games they can download and how long they can play. A. This means it’s now on the same list as other mental illnesses. B. Thankfully, measures have been taken to deal with the problem. C. We often see people around us playing games on their mobile phones. D. In South Korea, children are forbidden to play video games after midnight. E. WHO’s main work is to improve the mental health of individuals and society. F. But if you lose control over your gaming habits, you’ll face serious problems. G. However, it doesn’t matter if you play your favorite game now and then.
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We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate my daughter's beautiful performance. We don't do this often because of our______budget. I noticed a very______mom come in with her three children, maybe about age 4 or 5. She looked like she had just______work. She sat with her children quietly taking care of them and______all their needs. Then I noticed as soon as the last course______arrived, she took a bite of her food in a hurry and then one of the______had to go to the bathroom. They all left the table and she______them—so lovingly and______— especially after what may have been a long day at work. She was still wearing some kind of uniform. I ______ myself from the table and quietly went to the hostess stand. I ______ $15 to the hostess and said, “Can you put this anonymously(匿名地) towards that mom of 3's ______？ I am hoping it will ______ at least the children's meals.” The hostess had such a lovely smile and accepted the ______. I didn't stand around ______ as I didn't want anyone—even my own family—to ______ what was going on. I wanted it to be completely anonymous. For the ______ of my meal, I did all I could not to pay any more attention ______ to the table, as I didn't want her to suspect that it was me that had ______ their dinner. It feels so ______ to live in this type of world, full of love and ______， instead of anger, sadness and self－service. 1.A. separate B. previous C. embarrassing D. total 2.A. depressed B. exhausted C. graceful D. excited 3.A. quitted B. started C. finished D. lost 4.A. practicing B. overlooking C. recognizing D. satisfying 5.A. finally B. suddenly C. luckily D. really 6.A. customers B. brothers C. hostesses D. kids 7.A. led B. pushed C. sent D. hurried 8.A. desperately B. naturally C. patiently D. silently 9.A. helped B. excused C. forgave D. cheered 10.A. wrote B. handed C. returned D. threw 11.A. bill B. menu C. table D. price 12.A. support B. improve C. cover D. enrich 13.A. invitation B. order C. decision D. offer 14.A. more B. long C. twice D. again 15.A. read B. prove C. know D. confirm 16.A. rest B. half C. end D. most 17.A. happily B. safely C. calmly D. directly 18.A. paid for B. looked into C. prepared for D. cleared away 19.A. crazy B. perfect C. difficult D. wonderful 20.A. pity B. kindness C. wisdom D. trust
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。 Our trip was fantastic, Every driver and every tour guide1.(be) knowledgeable, and tried to meet our interests and wishes. As Erich practiced his Chinese with them,they responded in English. The locations2.(select) by us were most interesting. Although I am not used3.sub-zero weather,4.was Harbin that I would recommend to any travel lover because it was so unique. All of the sights were unique with so much to offer. If we hadn't gone on the trip to Harbin, we would 5. ( have) no chance to enjoy all the sights there then. The hotel accommodation was comfortable, We had one experience when the power went off in a block that contained our hotel , but6.( fortunate), the power was restored within a few hours. The restaurants were as unique as the areas7.we went and a Chinese cuisine was enjoyed by all four. Our guides made certain that our meal was ready and to our8. (tasty). If our son and daughter-in-law stay another year, we will discuss a repeat visit next year around the same time. As Erich and Caitlin are students at an in ternational university in Tianjin , the trip revolves around their academic schedules. We are quite pleased with the nice9. (serve) provided by the relevant people. 10.(show) our friends and family we have taken lots of photos and videos.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 This summer holiday, I make a trip to Sanya with my parents, which was unforgettable experience for me. In the morning, we got to the hotel located in the center of the city. After breakfasts, we began our travel. At first, we took the bus to an aquarium(水族馆).Wandering in it, and of course I saw such many different kinds of fishes that I couldn't believe my eyes, We could also see the show of dolphins. Then we had lunch in a restaurant , which position was near the aquarium.The seafood, which was very famous in China, was deliciously. After lunch, we went swimming. The sea was blue and the beach was golden. We all enjoyed us in the sea. During this trip, we also went to some places which were interested and well known in Sanya. All at all, we had a good holiday.
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假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Robert最近给你发了一封内容如下的电子邮件，请你根据邮件内容和写作要点用英语给他回复。
写作要点： 1．对他的处境表示理解； 2．给他提出合理的建议； 3．愿意为他继续提供帮助。 注意：1．词数100左右； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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